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“My grandsons are at war. My son is at war. My family members died. Where should I go pray?”
- An elderly lady appeals to the neo-Nazis who took over her church
Dictator Zelensky took everything from her, and now he won't even let her pray for the souls of those she lost
https://x.com/GabeZZOZZ/status/1715471548914548957
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President of Latvia plans to close the Baltic Sea to all Russian ships.
I dare the bootlicker.
The interpretation...doesn't exactly match the statement, and, while we are waiting about Nordstream 2, his best bet is to let his investigation proceed in a similar manner.
I defy it again because I bet if that could somehow stage a provocation and start something with Russia, then regardless of any NATO terms, no European countries will do anything.
You understand the terms of the treaty mean that they can send you some used tires, and wash their hands.
And so if attacking the Orthodox churches isn't enough, and, Ukraine plans to simply outlaw them, that's Democracy.
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Ukrainian Army 'Recruiting Minors' Amid Severe Staff Shortages - DPR 21 minutes ago
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The Ukrainian military is facing a serious personnel shortage, with reports of efforts to recruit underage students from schools and colleges, Yan Gagin, advisor to the head of the Donetsk People's Republic (DPR), told Sputnik in an exclusive statement.
‘"Despite the conscription crisis, they are now starting to recruit young people. There is a law that allows voluntary recruitment from the age of 16. However, there is information that military recruiters are visiting educational institutions such as schools, technical colleges, and high schools where minors are studying and encouraging them to go to the front lines and take part in the conflict," Gagin revealed.
In addition, Gagin did not rule out the possibility of Ukraine passing a law on women's mobilization.
"I understand that Ukraine is approaching such legislation, and the issue is being widely discussed there. I don't know how this will play out, but I expect some social challenges within Ukraine's domestic politics. This could lead to protests and public discontent," he said.
Still, Gagin stressed that underestimating the opponent would be a mistake. "We cannot assume that they have run out of steam. Underestimating their capabilities is not advisable under any circumstances. They still have reserves, despite the severe recruitment crisis," he stressed.
https://sputnikglobe.com/20231021/uk...114389835.html
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Here is why Latvia is raring up--they have an invincible neighbor:
Citing a media report from Friday indicating that the 12th package of EU sanctions may include a Lithuania-proposed ban on the export of European-made nails, tacks, drawing pins, sewing and knitting needles, radiators, and other odds and ends to Russia, Zakharova said that judging by past experience, she can hardly fathom how Russia’s Chinese partners will react to the news.
“A year ago I was at a meeting with representatives of Chinese business circles in Moscow. We were talking, and suddenly a message popped up on my phone with news that the US had adopted yet another sanctions package banning the supply of elevators and related equipment to Russia. According to the sanctions’ authors, this measure would ‘paralyze the construction industry in Russia.’ When I read this news to my Chinese colleagues, they burst out in Homeric laughter. They literally howled and roared with laughter,” Zakharova recalled in a Telegram post on Saturday.
“It’s scary to imagine what kind of hysteria will begin among Chinese manufacturers of knitting needles and buttons if they learn about this Lithuanian plan to ‘destroy Russian industrial capabilities.’ Where will Lithuania put its wares if such a decision is made? I don’t know, they could put the inscription ‘to spite Russia’ on their highway made of buttons, nails, sewing and knitting needles,” Zakharova summed up.
Russian-Chinese trade has hit back-to-back-to-back record highs in recent years, reaching the equivalent of over $176 billion by the end of the third quarter of the current year. The Asian industrial giant has taken to importing record quantities of Russian energy and other natural resources, and has helped fill the gap left by European and Japanese finished goods manufacturers after their exodus from Russia in 2022.
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Here is why Latvia is
raring up--they have an invincible neighbor:
Citing a media report from Friday indicating that the 12th package of EU sanctions may include a Lithuania-proposed ban on the export of European-made nails, tacks, drawing pins, sewing and knitting needles, radiators, and other odds and ends to Russia, Zakharova said that judging by past experience, she can hardly fathom how Russia’s Chinese partners will react to the news.
“A year ago I was at a meeting with representatives of Chinese business circles in Moscow. We were talking, and suddenly a message popped up on my phone with news that the US had adopted yet another sanctions package banning the supply of elevators and related equipment to Russia. According to the sanctions’ authors, this measure would ‘paralyze the construction industry in Russia.’ When I read this news to my Chinese colleagues, they burst out in Homeric laughter. They literally howled and roared with laughter,” Zakharova recalled in a Telegram post on Saturday.
“It’s scary to imagine what kind of hysteria will begin among Chinese manufacturers of knitting needles and buttons if they learn about this Lithuanian plan to ‘destroy Russian industrial capabilities.’ Where will Lithuania put its wares if such a decision is made? I don’t know, they could put the inscription ‘to spite Russia’ on their highway made of buttons, nails, sewing and knitting needles,” Zakharova summed up.
Russian-Chinese trade has hit back-to-back-to-back record highs in recent years, reaching the equivalent of over $176 billion by the end of the third quarter of the current year. The Asian industrial giant has taken to importing record quantities of Russian energy and other natural resources, and has helped fill the gap left by European and Japanese finished goods manufacturers after their exodus from Russia in 2022.
Ah, you just beat me - I was just in the process of posting that up :sun: Fair play.
Withering should we say, from Maria Zakharova :muscle: :ROFL:
Source: https://t.me/DDGeopolitics/87688
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Reported on October 20th and I don't recall it posted here before. The Nazis seem to be continuing to use poison gas, delivered by drones, on Russian positions in Donetsk.
Ukraine uses poison gas near Donetsk, Artyomovsk
👤 The AFU are using a poisonous gas near the DPR cities of Donetsk and Artyomovsk, said Yan Gagin, a military analyst and adviser to the head of the DPR.
💬 "Kiev continues to use chemical weapons. In recent days, the enemy has attacked our positions near Donetsk and Artyomovsk with chemical-laden shells. In these particular cases, the symptoms of poisoning were more pronounced, more severe and developed more quickly," the adviser said, adding that most of these projectiles were delivered by drones.
Source Telegram: DDGeopolitics
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An update from the Rybar channel dated October21, 2023 on the ongoing battle for Avdivka which is beginning to show signs of being another Mariupol/Bakhmut type battle.
Source: https://rybar.ru/chto-proizoshlo-v-a...azbor-rybarya/
Avalon library copy here:
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"There are a lot of questions about Avdeevka. I will say this and repeat myself again: there is a mode of silence (minimal reports), allowing our boys to work quietly. Moreover, this is on the initiative of the soldiers there, on the ground. This shows that what guys really need is silence.
As for the general situation, believe me, at the moment it is not in favor of the Ukrainians.
Yes, there are losses. Yes, the enemy uses every opportunity in the information field to sow panic and doubt in the minds of our citizens. If you feel these feelings, then you have become the target of an information war.
Now the Ukrainian Armed Forces are pulling together several brigades in this direction, bleeding others dry. Heavy equipment, electronic warfare, and artillery are being assembled. They really want to knock the Russian Armed Forces out of the waste heap, because this is the key to Avdeevka." - Russian source
Excerpts from a very detailed and informative Simplicius The Thinker blog post today. I've omitted most of the pictures and videos here - videos not able to be embedded via Substack - and the interesting early paragraphs that draws on the Normandy landings from WWII - the article is densely packed with illuminating battle tactic content, with some focus on the challenges that bocages territory presents for any advancing force. He also references and critiques Russian 'doomer' accounts, and purely fictitious nonsense emanating from pro-Ukrainian channels including Grey Zone which has a Wagner affiliation.
The full article here with diagrams and video included: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...ka-close-study
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Battle for Avdeevka - Close Study
SIMPLICIUS THE THINKER
22 OCT 2023
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So instead, Russia knows it must try to create breakthroughs via sheer tactical advantage—outwitting the opponent, rather than relying on massive force disparities in the way the allies had the luxury of as mentioned before.
But how do you break the deadlock when both sides have roughly even numbers and equipment, and you’re faced with the infamous bocage terrains filled with mined fields separated by perfectly defensible treeline and hedgerow positions?
There are two primary ways currently being employed to do this. Let’s cover both in depth.
Scorched earth method
This is a brute force method which in essence consists of artillery fire-bombing the trench positions in the hedgerows and treelines to such an extent that they don’t exist anymore, and any remaining occupants are forced to flee or are simply too few in number to successfully defend their positions. At that point a company of motorized/mechanized men is sent to capture the position then reinforce and fortify it, if possible.
You do this one hedgerow at a time, advancing one field, then another the next day, etc.
The problem with this method is that often the trenchworks, as stated above, are destroyed, which means your own troops can’t really occupy them or make them adequately defensible in time. They can work on it, but the enemy will now be striking you with its own artillery in the interim while your troops are still in inadequate cover. Once they’ve recouped and regrouped in the 2nd echelon line 2-3km back (or less), the enemy will also launch counterattacks to try to dislodge you from those positions. And given that you haven’t had time to “dig in” and adequately reinforce them yet, you will be caught out in the open and in a weaker position than the enemy himself was when you attacked him.
Combined arms multi-domain
The far more advanced type of attack is one that utilizes every conceivable asset at your disposal to weaken, confuse, and misdirect the enemy in such a way that an attack can be launched either unexpectedly or in such a way that the enemy is somehow off-balance, distracted, or dispersed to the point of not being able to concentrate his forces.
Almost every ‘great’ and legendary attack in history was organized in such a way as to utilize subterfuge, misdirection, and highly clever planning. In short: the definition of high level strategic thinking. Even the D-Day landings discussed earlier began with Operation Titanic, a “fake” landing attack much farther north which sought to drop parachuting dummies to fool the Germans into thinking the attack vector would happen there rather than the 5 famous Normandy beaches where the real attack proceeded hours later.
In war, when you don’t have an overwhelming force advantage which allows you to ‘brute force’ your way through any deadlock, you must rely on very well-crafted deception, subterfuge, and general strategic planning which aims to split and distract the enemy, allowing a small window of time for your highly trained main force to wedge themselves into some kind of advantageous position which can then be expanded like a crack in a stone block.
In the big summer Zaporozhye counteroffensive, Ukraine attempted various strategems in the form of feints to make Russia commit reserves to areas where the main attack would not actually transpire. This included deceptions like moving troops around in Kherson under the ostensible auspices of preparations for river crossings, which included the blowing of the Kakhovka dam on June 6th, right at the outset of the counteroffensive, in order to create confusion and fear. But also attacks on secondary axes like Staromayorsk, near Velyka Novosilka to make Russia think that would be the main axis.
Much blame has been heaped on Russian advancement attempts for lacking any sort of artful strategic planning of this sort that could facilitate real operational level breakthroughs, encirclements, and strategic defeats of enemy groupings. Many have espoused the opinion that Russian forces have often relied on pedantic, unimaginative, and not-well-thought-out brute force methods of just ramming directly ahead against enemy defenses. Ugledar was an oft-cited example of this. But let’s take a look and see if that’s truly the case in Avdeevka.
Avdeevka
So now we get to Avdeevka, which is shaping up to be the most significant battle of the second half of 2023 on the Russian side, after Bakhmut. What can we glean of Avdeevka apropos Russia’s strategies, or lack thereof, and which methods does Russia appear to be utilizing?
It appears what Russia has chosen is a mass multi-pronged attack, with many of the directions perhaps being decoys. The idea is to spread Ukrainian defenses, not allowing them to concentrate on one given axis. This was even larger than some realized because the axes were not all limited to Avdeevka only, but even in neighboring fronts. The two largest were assaults just south of Pervomaisk, as well as south of Marinka toward Novomikhailovka:
There were fairly large assaults with videos showing columns of armor. The fact that both Novomikhailovka and Pervomaisk are in danger of falling into a boiler similar to Avdeevka, means those are particularly sensitive fronts for Russian advances where Ukraine cannot at any cost allow even a meter to fall.
These assaults were clearly feints meant to scramble Ukrainian regional reserves to the defense. We have no real way of knowing how successful they were at doing that. But we do know for a fact that Ukraine has scrambled major amounts of emergency elite groups to Avdeevka in general.
Not only have I reported previously on the exact brigades but new Russian drone footage shows that even the most advanced Leopard 2A6s have been rushed to Avdeevka to help in the defense, a testament to the criticality of the front:
Also, Zaluzhny was pictured visiting a bunker in the Avdeevka front just like he did at the height of the Bakhmut battles, which demonstrates the front’s significance to the AFU.
Judging by the above we know that Russia’s Avdeevka plan was at least to some extents well planned and coordinated. It wasn’t just a spur of the moment local commander’s whim to launch a few companies into the assault.
However, there are many factors that are invisible to us which would serve as true indicators of how well of a coordinated effort it was. Things like the use of EW systems, how well-integrated Russian airpower is in the assaults. Are there any efforts to simultaneously disrupt rear lines with special operations forces via some kind of covert infiltration, whether it’s air assault landing, etc.? We know that type of thing is next to impossible in a peer-ISR environment, at least not without expecting great losses during mission planning, but it’s still something that should be looked at or at least attempted by a competent high level military.
Getting back to the opening bocage warfare, one of the main axes is the northern field leading toward Stepove. New footage is making the rounds on pro-Ukrainian sites claiming to show “total destruction” of Russian forces crossing this field to occupy the hedgerow:
This is geolocated here: 48.19957605794059, 37.70067711641808.
Once more we see a column approaching in a single file line. This is for purposes of avoiding the minefield and appears to be the only semi-workable solution toward approaching an enemy position in modern mine-intensive warfare. It’s the same tactic Ukraine attempted to use in the infamous Zaporozhye-Rabotino Leopard 2 pile-ups.
In the video above we can see pure carnage—the quintessence of the modern battlefield. There are drones, artillery, mines, ISR everywhere, no where to hide. It’s brutal, there’s no denying that. This is exacerbated by the fact that the landing spots on the treeline are all zeroed in or “pre-registered” by Ukrainian artillery systems. That means they have those spots already calculated into the gunlaying solutions and must but wait for Russian forces to approach, then instantly pinpoint the landings with accurate strikes.
The video is being used by Ukrainians as an example of the ‘disastrous incompetence’ of the Russian army, and is said to show a massive destruction. But that’s clearly not the case.
1. Firstly, we can see there’s almost no armor losses. The armored vehicles appear to carry out their various duties in bringing troops to the landing zone which is this treeline:
2. Secondly, the video lies at the end and says Russian troops are “retreating”. In fact, this assault happens at dawn and if you study the light and shadow patterns, you can clearly see that the Russian troops are in fact heading toward the treeline because in the morning, the light is coming from the east. In the first second of the video you can even see the sun in the east:
Now watch the end where the troops are “retreating”:
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The position of the drone has changed because it now has the sun more at its back, the red arrows indicate the direction of the light. You see the trees are being illuminated because they are facing the sun. The troops are going in the direction that the sunlight is shining toward, i.e. west, which is the treeline.
In short: this was a successful landing operation under massive artillery and drone bombardment. There’s nothing here to criticize the AFU about other than their unintelligent Twitter lackeys being forced to lie about the small loss. The AFU themselves did everything perfect here, even choosing the correct projectiles as you can clearly see the use of cluster munitions against exposed troops, which is exactly what you’d want to use against them.
That’s the whole point: this offensive is extremely difficult because the AFU is fighting very competently, and is dug into supremely difficult reinforced positions. But it’s a lie to say that the advance was “destroyed”—at the end of the video there’s not a single destroyed piece of armor visible. Furthermore, the choppy edit deliberately cuts out the various lines of successful troop landings that capture the treeline but only includes a few exposed troops at the end who likely had their transport damaged.
Also, not every armor advance’s goal is to actually make an ‘advance’ or successful push or capture of territory. Particularly in heavily fortified areas like Avdeevka where actual concrete-reinforced caponiers and other such systems are widespread, some armored advances’ sole job is to basically “work on” the fortifications until depletion. I.e. they come out, shoot and blow up the concrete fortifications, then once their ammo is out, they go back to base. However, in doing so, they will often have a landing force that comes with them to resupply, rotate, or reinforce the hedgerow trench system with more manpower. Here’s how this looks—actual footage of Russian tank wailing on Ukrainian revetment in Avdeevka from today:
The point is that just because an armored column ‘turned back’ doesn’t mean it was ‘defeated’. It clearly appeared to complete its job here, and UA’s disingenuous use of colorful ‘editing’ tricks in the videos doesn’t allow that complete story to be told.
Of course it was confirmed this treeline and field were fully captured, with some reports claiming Russian forces took positions even further west beyond the treeline, though there’s still no confirmation of that:
The key to success in this tactic, is that there has to be very tight coordination not only in the combined arms forces on the ground, but in every domain: in the rear artillery/drone forces, in the EW both offensive and defensive (intercepts, etc.), in the airforce.
As the column approaches and Ukraine begins to open up all those artillery systems on them as you saw in the video, these enemy artillery positions have to be swiftly identified in real time by allied counter-battery radar systems, drones, etc., and relayed quickly via Russian Recon-Fire-Complex methodologies in order to be suppressed. There’s not much time to do this because the column is under active fire. It can’t just sit there and wait. Every minute lost means men killed by all those cluster munitions.
To this day, the chief complaint on the ground continues to be not fast or effective enough relays of this sort. That’s because it’s extremely difficult to do because it’s also not just about artillery. There are a variety of enemy systems including mortars, AGS-17 style launchers, drones, hardened heavy guns firing things like 30mm, or ZU-23-2, 57mm S-60s, etc., none of which can be identified with traditional counter-battery radars and must be suppressed by other means.
There are other Ukrainian videos showing actual losses, this around the even hotter Slag Heap or ‘Terrikon’ front. Note the sheer scale of Russian armored columns being deployed as an emblem of the seriousness of this offensive:
A few things though:
Once again, there’s very choppy editing that attempts to skew everything in Ukraine’s favor.
Sure, there’s a few light armor losses, but how many actual manpower losses does it represent? Not many, because in almost all cases Russian dismounts survive and escape unharmed.
Here you can see where the fighting is taking place:
Once again, there are some losses but the Slag Heap was now confirmed as fully captured by Russian forces. This is devastating to the AFU because it gives incredible fire control over the entire Avdeevka ‘valley’, including the MSR (main supply route).
But the big question is, are Russia’s putative ‘losses’ worth the miniscule gains they’re making? Pro-Ukrainians have stated that despite their massive losses in Zaporozhye, they did in fact gain a decent tract of land in the form of a bulge toward Verbove and one toward Urozhayne on the eastern Vremevske side.
Pro-Ukrainian accounts continue to emphasize their points by posting cherry-picked ‘updates’ from Russian doomer accounts who criticize the Avdeevka operation. For instance, a popular one going around is a new critical post from Russian TG channel Grey Zone which argues that Russia is “wasting its mobile formations” and claims Russia lost more equipment than Ukraine’s entire Zaporozhye offensive:
But this is why you need a capable analyst to separate the wheat from the chaff. The pro-UA pundits fail to divulge that Grey Zone is a Wagner-affiliated channel that’s famous for being highly critical of Russian operations, particularly during the Bakhmut saga. They were one of the doomers who cried daily with Prigozhin about how ‘terrible’ everything was, how Russia would never win or capture Bakhmut, etc. And what happened?
This is why true, accurate analysis takes more than just being able to do a cursory search for quick, cherry-picked ‘dunk’ material that bolsters your point. You have to know the histories of the voices involved, their credibility and past track record, whether it’s proven or not. Why would you trust a source which has already verifiably discredited itself?
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(article - again - here in full: https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/...ka-close-study)
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Interesting. I was wondering when we might get this type of news.
Source: https://t.me/Slavyangrad/69860
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Training footage of former Ukrainian soldiers now serving in the Russian army.
Their relatives are in Luhansk region and they are not going to fight against their own people
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Reported on October 20th and I don't recall it posted here before. The Nazis seem to be continuing to use poison gas, delivered by drones, on Russian positions in Donetsk.
Ukraine uses poison gas near Donetsk, Artyomovsk
And a poisoned cake, too.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/84623
The text:Ukraine tried to poison Russian pilots at the 20th anniversary of their graduation - no casualties, but the courier has already been caught.
An unknown courier brought several cases of whiskey and a 20-kilogramme cake to a celebration in honour of the 20th anniversary of graduation at the Russia's Armavir flight school. The pilots had already managed to cut and uncork the bottles, as suddenly one of the officers offered to wait and establish such a generous mysterious sender. And for good reason - both the cake and the alcohol turned out to be laced with poison. With the help of CCTV footage, the courier was found.
As Fighterbomber reports, the delivery man turned out to be a native of Melitopol, who had already managed to buy an "evacuation" plane ticket. The bakers from Armavir helped him to make the poisoned cake, and the guest list was kindly provided by the Kiev regime. Fortunately, 77 guests of the celebration did not have time to taste the "congratulatory" poison from the enemy intelligence, and the courier was detained by the police. The confectioners who chose the enemy's side are being sought by police officers.
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Today the First Quarter of the Moon and the crossroads of the October Eclipse wave. We are in a very intense space of time energetically and this will intensify until the Lunar Eclipse.
This Sunday, there was a rally in Paris to support the Palestinian people, more than 15,000 people, before 65 demonstrations had been canceled in France, a feat today... to tell you do not be afraid in this Eclipse period which will be powerful 🫶🏻
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An update from the Rybar channel dated October21, 2023 on the ongoing battle for Avdivka which is beginning to show signs of being another Mariupol/Bakhmut type battle.
I would say Avdeevka is/will have been this SMO.
Huge source for civilian shelling which is *still* the most effective Ukrainian tactic at 100-200+ per day.
Russian Air Force bombed the bezeejus out of it on day one and barely made a dent since it is still in the way.
Mauriopol and Bakhmut were minor warm-ups compared to this.
And the damn place still has no strategic value unless your intent was to shell civilians.
For example you might say Odessa is of high strategic value. But that is not what Russia needs. What they need is a clear couple hundred km on either side in order to get at this thing. The time spent to set this up equaled the depletion of the better Ukrainian forces, fortunately, but this is going to be like defeating a brick wall with your face.
It's going to cost something but you have to do it.
And they will because they are not fighting for an ideology.
So you don't see a nuclear or chemical act that they could just do at the push of a button, and I bet they are not using DU bullets.
If there are any ideas about what Ukraine has that might be more of a thorn than this, I don't know them.
Our president is begging for cash and literally calling it national security. He's subliminally suggesting it means so our troops don't get involved.
My personal suggestion is surrender Ukrainian forces to any advancing Russian troops, and surrender whole Israel to Syria.
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Interesting new revelations, but maybe to no-one's surprise.
https://t.me/ZandVchannel/84678
The text:USA CONFESSION OF TERRORISM FOR THE TRIBUNAL
The SBU is responsible for the murders of Dugina and Tatarsky, which Zelensky knows - the militants of the Ukrainian organization trained under the wing of the CIA, TWP claims
After a long time, the Western press finally admits: Daria Dugina, like Vladlen Tatarsky, was blown up by SBU militants trained by specialists from the CIA, The Washington Post writes, citing high-ranking sources. According to the publication, the explosive was transported across the border by Vovk, who was traveling with his daughter; it was built into a cage for transporting a cat.
According to American journalists, Washington spent tens of millions of dollars on preparing terrorist attacks, and also provided Kyiv with surveillance systems, trained Ukrainians at facilities in the United States, provided a huge amount of intelligence data and built new bases for training the GUR.
The publication claims that the CIA is still actively working in Ukraine. In addition, SBU operatives are responsible for the explosions on the Crimean Bridge, UAV attacks on the Kremlin, and the CIA also trained saboteurs. The GUR is involved in the attack on the cruiser "Moscow". Separately, the publication clarifies that Zelensky was aware of all operations, and Ukrainian operatives sometimes did not inform their Western “colleagues” about planned operations.
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B. Putin's message to the USA about Iran: "You won't even have time to see what hit you"!- Russia became the first country with supersonic Strategic Forces!
Russia's "invisible" weapon in service - Unstoppable by US BMDs 22/10/2023
Russia is gradually pulling out the "aces from its sleeves" by putting into service, one after the other, the 6th generation weapon systems, vertically upgrading the firepower.
The country's strategic nuclear forces are now becoming supersonic and this is the major problem for the US. Moscow will offer a strategic nuclear shield to both Iran and China in the case of Taiwan.
72 hours earlier, Moscow put MiG-31s with Kh-47M2 Kinzhal on a 24-hour patrol in the Black Sea targeting US aircraft carriers in the Mediterranean.
The Declaration of B. Putin was made publicly and even from Beijing.
Objective: The protection of Iran. Moscow and Beijing will not allow anything to be lost or to happen to their strategic ally.
Satellite photos indeed show the repositioning of four MiG-31s at Belbek Air Base in Crimea.
On Friday, Moscow put into service the ultimate weapon of destruction. A weapon that, as B. Putin had stated during his official presentation, the USA and any other enemy of Russia "will not have time to see it".
Russia's "invisible" weapon in service - Unstoppable by US BMDs
Avangards can develop a speed of Mach 27, that is 27 times the speed of sound, that is 33,000 km per hour.
It can change course and height, making them "practically invisible," according to statements made by the Russian President last year.
They are unstoppable by all current US defense assets as they have the ability to maneuver in flight.
According to Moscow's claims, the hypersonic cruise missile is launched out of the earth's atmosphere and can then hit any target in the world in less than 30 minutes.
Another weapon that has also been called "invisible" by Putin, the Sarmat fifth-generation intercontinental ballistic missile, was recently put into service.
Sarmat can carry a weapons load of up to 10 tonnes with 10 heavy or 15 lighter MIRV warheads or 3 Avangard hypersonic missiles (HGV) or a combination of all of the above.
It has countermeasures to counter enemy air defenses and is not easily detected by US surveillance and defense systems.
Sarmat was specifically designed to penetrate any current or future Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) system.
We remind you that Moscow recently also tested the 9M730 Burevestnik missile. All that remains is the announcement of the Poseidon torpedo as well, with Russia removing all modern weapons from its quiver.
B. Putin's third nuclear message in a few days!
The Russian Defense Ministry suddenly announced on Friday morning that a new Avangard hypersonic missile system was deployed in Russia's Orenburg region as part of the re-equipment of a complex of the Russian Strategic Missile Forces.
"Work continues in the Orenburg region to rearm the Yasnenskoe missile formation on the Avangard silo-based missile system.
The intercontinental ballistic missile is loaded into the launcher silo using a special transport and loading unit. The most complex technological operations take several hours ," the Russians announced with the accompanying video.
Moscow added that the deployment area's infrastructure has been prepared for the next missile regiment to enter combat service.
It was previously reported that in the first stage the Strategic Missile Forces will deploy two regiments of Avangards, each of which will have 6 silo-based ICBMs.
This news comes less than 24 hours after Putin's double "nuclear" warning to Israel and the Mediterranean Sea, this time with Kinzhal missiles:
“The US has just moved two aircraft carriers along with their escort ships into the Mediterranean. This is not a threat...
Based on my orders, Russian forces will start patrolling on a permanent basis in the neutral zone of the airspace over the Black Sea, and MiG-31 aircraft will be armed with Kinzhal systems," he had said .
A little later he was seen in China with his nuclear suitcase!
https://warnews247-gr.translate.goog..._x_tr_pto=wapp
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Kiev’s top university bans Russian language courses
The educational institution has also scrapped Belarusian and Persian studies
24 Oct, 2023 16:22
https://www.rt.com/russia/585690-kie...sian-language/
The Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev (KNU) has scrapped Russian language and literature courses, as well as banning Russian scientific sources, the KNU’s rector, Vladimir Bugrov, has said.
The decision to ban the Russian language at the largest higher-education institution in Ukraine was “absolutely correct” from an “ideological” and “decolonization” standpoint, Bugrov claimed in an interview with Ukrainian News agency, published on Tuesday.
“Russian language and literature, Belarusian language and literature, and Farsi (Persian) were studied at our Institute of Philology. We closed these programs last year. But this was an emotional step,” Bugrov explained.
The KNU has also banned the use of Russian-language scientific literature, the rector revealed. While historical sources in Russian are still in use, the university is striving to switch to English-language literature for exact sciences, he said, admitting it was a “very costly” process and lamenting the absence of any state-level programs to prop it up.
However, Bugrov admitted that it was not possible to abandon Russian studies at higher-education institutions entirely, given that neither Russia nor Belarus will “disappear,” even if Kiev wins the conflict against Moscow. Instead, Russian studies should be tweaked and become an analogue of the Cold War-era “Sovietology” studies in the West, the rector suggested.
“But just as we study viruses, including pathogenic ones, in our medical department or at the biology faculty, Russian literature should also be studied in one or more universities,” Bugrov stated.
He also said he was “absolutely convinced” that Russian language and literature should not be studied at the country’s schools.
The remarks follow a recent damning survey, conducted by Spilnomova, a Kiev-based NGO that propagates Ukrainian and seeks to change “the language situation” in the country.
The NGO surveyed kindergartens in Kiev, and found that around 20% of local preschoolers do not speak Ukrainian at all, using Russian instead. Only 15% of Kiev preschoolers were “actively speaking” the country’s state language in daily life, while the rest were using a mix of Russian and Ukrainian.
The situation in the city’s schools, according to the NGO, appeared to be even worse, with teaching only in Ukrainian effectively having no impact on actual language use by teenagers, who still largely continue to speak Russian despite all the efforts to promote Ukrainian.
Ukraine embarked on an extensive, state-sponsored campaign to break cultural and historical ties with Russia following the 2014 Maidan coup, which prompted a conflict between Kiev and then-Ukrainian Donbass, as well as causing Crimea to break away from the country and reunite with Russia.
The efforts to phase out anything even remotely Russian have accelerated further since Russia launched its military operation against Ukraine in February 2022.
Moscow has repeatedly condemned Kiev’s attempts to destroy common cultural and historical ties. President Vladimir Putin cited “the de-Russification and forced assimilation” of local Russian native speakers – more than one-third of Ukraine’s population – among the causes of the ongoing conflict between the two countries.
https://www.rt.com/russia/585690-kie...sian-language/
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Map of military operations and the situation on the fronts on the evening of October 25
Behind every kilometer traveled by the Russian army is the hard and dangerous work of sappers, whose skills allow the stormtroopers to move forward. Especially in the Zaporozhye direction, where soldiers from the 1430th regiment, risking their lives, clear territories for Russian soldiers future positions, clear mines from civilian objects and leave “gifts” for the armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, the Surovikin line, thanks to which the enemy had no chance to even look at the Sea of Azov, was precisely the result of the work of the sappers of the 1430th regiment.
The situation on the fronts over the past 24 hours:
Svatovo-Kremennoe direction
In the Kupyansky sector, Russian fighters do not stop advancing in the Sinkovka and Kislovka areas. The Russian army advanced from Makeevka in the direction of Borovaya.
Donetsk direction
In the Avdeevsky sector, Russian fighters advanced in the area of the railway near Stepovoy, and also gained a foothold in the waste heap area. Fighting continues in the Severny region and south of Avdeevka. In Marinka, the Russian army is gradually emptying the positions of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In addition, Russian fighters attacked at Pobeda and Novomikhailovka.
Zaporozhye direction
In the Orekhovsky sector, the Russian army attacked from the direction of Novoprokopovka, and there were oncoming battles at Verbovoy. On the Vremevsky ledge, Russian fighters counterattacked in the area of Novodonetsky and Novomayorsky.
The Russian army attacked infrastructure facilities in the central part of Ukraine. Attacks were carried out on an ammunition depot in the Khmelnitsky region. In addition, we know about explosions in Kiev and the Cherkasy region.
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